Word: godard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meyer has not been treated as extensively by critics as say, Godard or Hitchcock have, but recently Vincent Canby decided to spend a few inches on him. Now I'm still so dumb about the cinema that I don't know whether I should say "movie" or "film" or "picture." but I know when I've caught Canby with his foot in his mouth. Meyer would be all right, Canby said, if only he could get his mind off sex. Hah. What makes Meyer so great is that he can think of nothing else...
...director's failure to direct can be turned into a positive advatage. Godard, for example, gives his actors very little idea of what they are supposed to do, and yet his actors are known to prefer their roles in his films more than others. But to make non-directing an asset is extremely difficult. It demands not only a strong intuitive sense of the potentials of the actors, but also a clear abstract idea of what is wanted from them. Many established directors-Godard, Bunuel, Bresson-feel at a disadvantage using name actors, since they tend to have preconceived ideas...
Sontag's brilliant book contains essays on Bergman and Godard, the pornographic imagination, the relation of theatre and film, the state of the nation, and E. M. Cioran, a modern aphoristic French philosopher. Two of the essays, the avant-garde "Aesthetics of Silence" and "Trip to Hanoi," rank among the most important intellectual documents of the sixties...
...Kisses begins with a shot of the Cinemathique in Paris and is dedicated to Henri Langlois, the popular man who runs it. And indeed the Nouvelle Vague movement in French films owes its existence to the Musee Cinema since most of the men in this movement-Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, Erie Rohmer, Jacques Rivette-began their careers as critics for the highly-influential Cahiers du Cinema and have arrived where they are only after a long and detailed study of film history...
From the shot of Paris. Truffaut cuts to lead actor Jean-Picrre Leaud (Godard's Mascudin-Feminin. La Chinoise Truffaut's Four Hundred Blows, Skolimowski's Le Depart) reading Balzac. The use of books is a Novell Vague device which reveals Truffaut's Hundred Blows when twelve-year old Leaud kept a bust of Balzae in his room...